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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Bay of Pics - Lloyd Billingsley

Over the Memorial Day weekend, photos of Central American children
at a U.S. holding facility began to appear online. Democrats and their
media allies quickly hailed the pics as the latest exhibit of anti-Trump
hysteria.

“Look at these photos,” Linda Sarsour tweeted.

“Speechless,” tweeted Antonio Villaraigosa, former Los Angeles mayor
and candidate for governor of California. “This is not who we are as a
nation.”

For the breathless tweeters, the photos were prima facie evidence
that, as CNN’s April Ryan wondered, “is the Trump administration
involved in a child sex-trafficking ring?”

Antonio Arellano,
who claims to work for ABC in Houston, circulated a story about an ICE
detention center in Texas with “a prison bus just for babies.” CNN’s Ana
Navarro responded, “America, this cannot be who we are” and those who
picked up Arrellano’s story included Kasie Hunt of NBC, Sharon Waxman of
TheWrap, actor Alyssa Milano, and POTUS 44 staffer Michael Simon and
Democrat Party strategist Zac Petkanas.

Trouble was, the story was from 2014, long before the Trump administration. Likewise, As Saagar Enjeti noted in the Daily Caller,
the detention center photos “stem from a 2014 Arizona Central story
showing migrant children in steel cages. The cages were implemented at
the height of the Central American migrant crisis under the Obama
administration.”

The eager Silverstein took it as a reminder
“not to RT things while distracted w family on the weekend.” Over at
CNN, a colleague of Ryan defended the child-trafficking charge as “a
thought experiment and not meant to be taken literally.” For his part,
President Trump was not surprised.

“Democrats mistakenly tweet
2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in
steel cages,” the president tweeted. “They thought it was recent
pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires.” Further, “The
Fake Mainstream Media has, from the time I announced I was running for
President, run the most highly sophisticated & dishonest
Disinformation Campaign in the history of politics.” The president has a
strong case but there’s more to the story.

Those responsible
for the children in detention centers are the parents who put them in
the hands of professional smugglers, a deliberate act of child abuse.
The previous administration encouraged them to do so in order to take
advantage of his illegal DACA program, a quest to expand the Democrats’
imported electorate. Aside from the date, the pictures were hardly the
full story on the children.

According to the original 2014 Arizona Republic story that accompanied the photos,
“they are fed and clothed, kept clean and cool, far better off than if
they were walking through the desert in June temperatures.” The 900
children “entered the country illegally” and when apprehended by U.S.
Customs and Border protection, “they were shipped to Nogales from
overwhelmed processing facilities in Texas.”

The Nogales
facility “is a way station where the children are identified, examined
for health problems by the U.S. Public Health Service, vaccinated and
then moved to other facilities in Texas, Oklahoma and California until
they are placed with relatives already in the country to await their day
in Immigration Court.”

A media tour “dispelled rumors of ill
treatment” and the CBP agents “seem to be genuinely compassionate in
their interactions with the children. The facility is clean and
air-conditioned.” U.S. officials even “substituted corn tortillas for
flour ones” in accordance with the children’s dietary preferences.

As the June 18, 2014 article also revealed, border agents, “have
apprehended about 47,000 unaccompanied minors who crossed the border
into the U.S. illegally from Mexico. Almost three-fourths of the
children apprehended are from Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador.

The CBP estimates that apprehensions of minors this year may reach 90,000.”

That massive child trafficking went down when POTUS 44 occupied the
White House. If the old-line establishment media bosses want to recover
from this fakery, they should run some detailed, accurate stories on the
previous administration.

For example, provide some insight
on the Islamic terrorists who killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and
three other Americans in Benghazi. Why did Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton leave them so unprotected? Likewise, who are the federal agents
who knew about Nidal Hasan’s plan to kill Americans but did nothing to
stop him? And what are these people doing now?

FBI operatives Peter Strzok and Lisa Page said the president wanted to know “everything we’re doing.”
What did the president know and when did he know it? What did the
president authorize about the spies in the Trump campaign? As Michael
Corleone said, that’s a terrific story, and the public just might like
the full truth.

Meanwhile, President Trump knows that the
2014 child trafficking is not who we are as a nation. That’s why the
president wants a wall, border security, and the rule of law to
prevail.